In the summer of 1962 David Adamson was working in Paris when he met the Emir Bedir Khan, the leader of the Kurdish nationalist movement. From that meeting sprang a decision to try and enter the Kurdish-held territory in the north-west of "Iraq". The difficulties were considerable. It was impossible to go through Iraq and the Persian, Turkish and Syrian frontiers in the vicinity of the revolt were closed. This book tells not only of a 200-mile journey on foot and horseback through the rebel mountains but also of the circuitous route through the Middle East the author had to take to get there. He describes the leaders of the revolt and the aspirations, history and background of the Kurdish Nationalists, whose ancestors Zenophone’s Greek described as “worse than Tissaphernes’, the Persian general who harried them after the disastrous Battle of Cunaxa.